Jeffrey Knockel

Research

I'm fighting to bring transparency to Internet censorship and surveillance.
I use reverse engineering techniques to reveal how software behavior harms your
Internet freedom. Sometimes this behavior is intentional. For instance, some
software censors what you say and secretly phones home information about your
conversation if you talk about sensitive topics. Sometimes the harm is
accidental. For instance, some software communicates your personal information
but improperly encrypts it such that someone listening in can easily decrypt
it.
My graduate research was advised by
Jed Crandall
and
Jared Saia.

2013

Jeffrey Knockel, George Saad, and Jared Saia. Self-Healing of Byzantine Faults. In the Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2013). Osaka, Japan. November 2013.
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